Jennifer Thigpen

Education

Academic & Professional Interests

Professor Thigpen is a Nineteenth Century U.S. historian whose work focuses on women and gender, the U.S West, and Colonialism.

Honors and Awards

Western History Association's Jensen-Miller Award for best article in the field of women and gender in the North American West (2011)
Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize Finalist (2008)
Chancellor's Club Dissertation Fellowship(2006)
Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library (2005)